CMGG entry for ak'biiy      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Alternative readings: AHK'BIIY
Translation: last night, yesterday
Part of speech: Adverb

Logogram spellings of ak'biiy: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of ak'biiy

                           

Stuart-YM.p2.fig2a                    Stuart-YM.p2.fig2b

<AK’[bi]:ya>.<<hu:li>:ya>          a.<AK’:ya> HUL:ya

 

·     Stuart-YM is where this reading is first proposed.

·     Sim: probably etymologically related to ak’ab = “darkness” (with addition of -iiy suffix and deletion of the middle vowel in tri-syllabic compounds).